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Let’s pick on the poor with a floor price for alcohol

22 September 2017

11:59 AM

22 September 2017

11:59 AM

The Western Australian government this week announced a proposal to apply a floor price to takeaway alcohol, another ingenious idea to create even more inequality between the rich and the poor, as well as hurting law-abiding citizens for the actions of a minority.

As any economics student will tell you, as prices increase through higher taxes, demand will fall.

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